Leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, all groups funded by Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, met on Wednesday in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is located.
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 5:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Nearly 10,000 Members Added to Humana Plans Results in Savings to Help Unfunded Liability
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2023 @ 12:40 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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A new calculation from N.C. state officials says more than $677 million of a court-ordered Leandro education plan remains unfunded.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 2:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Bought and paid for
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 4:20 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Federally-funded paper proposes having social justice metrics partially supplant merit when awarding science research funding.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 1:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Document says
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2022 @ 2:29 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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More gain of function funded by Fauci
Published: Saturday, September 11th, 2021 @ 10:35 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Communist China has long benefitted from American-funded research stolen by Chinese academics who infiltrate colleges throughout the United States.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 12:43 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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The state panel that determines how much money North Carolina can prudently borrow over the next 10 years rejected an appeal Wednesday by Gov. Roy Cooper's budget director to triple the state's debt ceiling from $2.03 billion to more than $6 billion.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2019 @ 2:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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That famous punchline also comes to mind as this fan considers debate over state-funded public school construction in North Carolina. Yes, I'm linking one of North Carolina's most pressing policy discussions to "This Is Spinal Tap."
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 3:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fast-moving trains advocating for state-funded pre-K programs in North Carolina and elsewhere lost some steam this week with the release of two reports
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some lawmakers hope to allow family farmers, small farm-related businesses, and others to band together for more affordable health coverage. The move could help hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As reported by the N&O today, the State Treasurer’s office this week released updated figures for the state retiree pension fund and health insurance benefits
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Attack Ad Makes False Claims About Governor McCrory's Record on Education
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 4:10 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina's public employees retirement system is underfunded, bled more than $2 billion in red ink in the most recent 12-month period reported, and is outperformed by most other states, data show
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2016 @ 4:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his long-standing fight against taxpayer-funded abortion by voting for H.R. 3495, the Women’s Public Health and Safety Act.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Would it be okay if citizens were forced to vote for a candidate against their will? Of course not.So why do certain NC legislators think it okay to force citizens to financially support candidates against their will?
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 7:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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What are the limits of the partnerships that a public institution of higher education may form? A growing number of critics, including university officials and faculty, argue that accepting funding and academic influence from the communist Chinese government crosses a line.
Published: Friday, December 26th, 2014 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Reporter Lynn Bonner and the News and Observer showed us once again why people have stopped buying newspapers: Reporters keep trying to make the news, not report it.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yancey County resident Melissa Graham's stimulus-funded project converting a former blue jean factory into a mixed-use commercial facility failed, and Graham did not pay tens of thousands of dollars to a subcontractor, but a report from the N.C. Department of Commerce viewed the project as a success
Published: Thursday, December 4th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent study concluded that North Carolina's $87 billion state pension fund is the second-best performing plan in the nation, even though new government-mandated accounting methods show it might be underfunded by more than $15 billion instead of operating in the black, as official state figures...
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is calling on three federal agencies to disclose their taxpayer-funded luxury travel expenses.
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you want a better understanding of why politicians do what they do, you have to look underneath the surface. You can't just accept what...
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To go over all the instances of favoritism over the center's past 26 years would be overwhelming. The following examples are from the last year alone, when the Rural Center was involved in over 800 projects.
Published: Saturday, June 22nd, 2013 @ 5:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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What if I were to coax you into accepting a loan with money I stole from you? You'd probably call the police and have me arrested as a thief and a con artist.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Sizzling oratory and stubborn statistics clashed as opponents of a tax-funded voucher bill for private schools squared off against advocates of the...
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2013 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some Triangle politicians continue to push for a new taxpayer-funded regional passenger rail system. Adrian Moore, vice president for policy at the Reason Foundation, says passenger rail makes no sense for most American communities, including North Carolina's Triangle region.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few North Carolinians realize that the state has extensive educational options for preschoolers and college students but little for children in the "middle" -- the 1.5 million students in traditional K-12 public schools.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 7:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remarkably, Sandra Fluke (pronounced Sandra Fluck), who is best known as the Georgetown law student who publicly fretted that Republicans, if elected en masse, would deny her current 3,000.00 stipend of annual contraception, spoke in prime time at the Democrat National Convention.
Published: Thursday, September 6th, 2012 @ 1:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When you promise to pay someone in the future, you have a debt with him. However, were you to use cash accounting, as North Carolina's government does, you would not record it as such, because no cash changed hands.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 11:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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While unfunded liabilities continue to garner plenty of attention in the press, I fear a lack of understanding means this attention is failing to translate into legislative action.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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About 65 percent of our education funding comes from state sources. These are taxes paid into the state and distributed to all 115 school districts and charter schools in the state.
Published: Saturday, June 16th, 2012 @ 11:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The next time you hear a North Carolina politician talk about the "need" to use tax dollars or public debt to build a new ballpark, convention center, rail line, or similar luxury, ask them this simple question: how much more do you think we can afford?
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 @ 10:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County seeks justice in regards to eqitable governing in respect to the legislation associated with the Health Care Reform Bill.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 @ 2:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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